Cool. So I'm at camp now. It's pretty good. I'll stick up an email I wrote up here, change a few settings, then I got to make like Tom and Cruise. (Or make like a tree and get the hell outa here.)



hey all,
Note: This email has been deemed “not as sarcastic/funny/dark as the majority of Ryan's Emails“. This is due to Technical Reasons (I'm tired - I got work to do soon).

Right - my first real email from Camp. All is pretty good - I've settled in loads in the last few days - been out a few times to Portland, Maine with some people and settled into Computer Classes (something they said I wouldn't have to teach but looks like I am). While I was initially pretty nervous/angry/freaked out about being here and getting stuck with computers, it seems all good now. Took me a while to settle in and since I missed all the orientation stuff I still get left behind in some stuff that everyone else seems to know, but it's working out.

Like I said, I went out in Portland over here as spent the first night in America in a pub in New York with some I met on the plane over. New York was incredible (all 12 hours I got to see of it) and I'd love to live there at some point. On my night off from Camp I went out to Portland, had a 12 ounce sirloin steak and some beers and chilled out a bit. Also visited Walmart - I'm still uncertain as to whether it was a Supermarket or some kind of Independant Republic, run by Communist Oppressors. It was huge. Everything from guns to cheap watches to inflatable pools.

The Camp itself is incredible - the kids pay about $4000 to come here for 4 weeks. They windsurf, waterski, do computer stuff, mountain bike, have dances and loads of other stuff. When I got back from my night out I went out on the dock with some people and checked out the stars - the sky out here is amazing so I got to watch satellites and shooting stars. I'm also fairly certain I saw someone sharing a quiet cigarette with some friends and a mosquito. They're pretty big out here.

Otherwise, I guess I'll email soon. I'm doing 14 hour work days at the moment (where work means either preparing or looking after a bunk or teaching or eating or...) so my time is kinda limited but I'll try.
To just summarise: I'm okay. The Mosquitos are huge and feast on the flesh of the unwary. Computer teaching sucks but it could be worse.





So that's it. I guess I could write more and I probobly will at some point but I'm absolutely wrecked at the moment and I have to teach a class in 15 minutes. I'm supposed to be teach stuff I don't know. Great.






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